Chapter 100: Divide the melons? Or not?
Xiang family.
Zhang Juhua was throwing things around in the yard, doing nothing, but she never stopped talking.
"Asking you to wash clothes is like asking a landlord to get up and eat. You have to bow down and ask a noble man to do something, right?"
"Look, look, the mud on your clothes can't even be washed clean. What are you doing? You only know how to pick up food with your hands, not how to work, right?"
After scolding Xiang Lili, who was washing clothes and crying but didn't dare to wipe her tears, she turned around and scolded Zhou Aihua who was picking vegetables.
"You plague god! You're ripping off such good leaves! You can't eat them! Are you rich? Or are you the emperor?"
"You're always crying and I'm not dead yet! I'm really annoyed by you. Why did you marry such a scoundrel in the first place?"
Zhou Aihua lowered her head, frowning, and gritted her teeth, wanting to argue for herself, but under the pressure of her mother-in-law, she dared not say anything.
The air pressure in the Xiang family's home has been extremely low these past two days. Although the sky is clear, there is a thick and dark cloud hanging over the heads of the Xiang family members. It is possible that after lightning and thunder, heavy rain will fall at any time.
But the Xiang family has a very clear chain of contempt. The eldest brother's family was always scolded. Although Xiang Jinsheng's family was cowardly and dared not say anything, Zhang Juhua would at most roll her eyes and would not curse at the couple.
In particular, Xiang Xiuxiu was at home today, and the phenomenon of her eyes squinting had disappeared.
For example, now, Zhang Juhua just finished scolding Zhou Aihua and her daughter, and then turned around and personally went to cook some brown sugar and egg water for Xiang Xiuxiu. In the eyes of others, they were so jealous that they wanted to vomit blood.
"Xiu Xiu, you've worked hard studying. Come, let me nourish you."
Zhang Juhua held the brown sugar water in her hand, her face wrinkled with smile, and she looked at her granddaughter as if she were looking at a lump of gold.
"You must study hard and make a good career in the future so that you can live a good life in the city, eat commercial grain, and live a good life."
Xiang Xiuxiu had just finished washing up and took the brown sugar water. Her voice was sweet and her smile was sweet: "Thank you, grandma~"
Xiang Lili turned her head and secretly glanced at the scene, pursed her lips, and her tears flowed even more violently.
Why can Sister Xiuxiu eat brown sugar eggs, but she can't even taste them all year round?
She also wants to eat eggs and drink brown sugar water!
But she didn't dare say it, because the consequences were foreseeable. Her grandmother would definitely point at her nose and scold her with the most unpleasant words.
Xiang Lili turned her head back and rubbed the clothes in the basin angrily, thinking, if only she could be as tough as Sister Yaoyao.
It’s a pity that Sister Yaoyao was forced away by her grandmother. When she grows up, will she also be forced to marry a cripple?
She had heard that the lame man who had proposed marriage was a real fighter. She was afraid of being beaten. Her aunt in Xiangjiawan had been beaten before, her body covered in bruises, and she had to hide from everyone when she went out...
But she didn't dare to resist like Sister Yaoyao, so she just found another person to marry.
If she did that, she would be beaten to death by her family.
The little girl sighed softly in front of the washtub. Thinking of her situation in this family, the dark clouds in her heart began to rain lightly.
Just as she was feeling worried, a clear bell rang outside the yard. She quickly looked up and saw a bicycle riding up the slope and then entering the yard.
She recognized the young man on the bicycle. Wasn't he Nie Baichuan, the man who married her sister Yaoyao? And the person sitting diagonally on the back seat was none other than the sister Yaoyao she had just been thinking about!
Xiang Xiuxiu stopped washing clothes and followed the track of the bicycle with her eyes, but she didn't dare to call for help.
Because out of the corner of her eye she had caught a glimpse of her grandmother's icy, dark face...
"Oh, you even know which direction the door of Xiang's house opens?" Zhang Juhua lowered her eyes, wishing she could go up and tear this prodigal son to pieces.
She cursed sarcastically, "We don't have a granddaughter like you in our Xiang family. I've long thought that my family is extinct. Who let you in? Get out!"
Naturally, everyone else heard this as well, and they all stared at Xiang Yao and Nie Baichuan. Liu Xiaolan, the "Iron Girl" who was dawdling in the house picking up rice, also stretched her neck and poked her head out to look.
Xiang Yao originally had a smile on her face. Today was a good day for separation, and she didn't want to ruin her mood.
But I didn't expect that as soon as I entered the door, I heard Zhang Juhua say that her family had died out, and the smile on her face immediately widened.
Well, it's funny.
"Hey, Grandma, you're right!" She jumped off the bicycle and directed Nie Baichuan, "Baichuan, park the bike over there. You'll have to walk less when you move things later."
Nie Baichuan nodded, held the bicycle, and parked it in front of the door of Xiang Yao's room.
Xiang Yao looked at Zhang Juhua, her eyebrows curved into a semicircle. "Grandma, you don't recognize me as your granddaughter. I do, but I also feel that I shouldn't be a member of the Xiang family. So, let's just be straightforward and divide the family today."
She smiled brightly: "Then I really am not a member of your Xiang family!"
Zhang Juhua was stunned. She didn't expect Xiang Yao to be so straightforward and start talking about separation as soon as he came in.
Split up the family?
She couldn't stand seeing her granddaughter and wished she had suffocated her to death when she was born. However, dividing the family would bring shame to the entire Xiang family!
Forcing this granddaughter to get married is not a big deal. After all, in the countryside, every family does this.
Xiang Yao disobeyed her elders and even ran away from her marriage. She also found a man in secret to get married. This was Xiang Yao's fault. No matter where she went, it was always Xiang Yao, the granddaughter, who was in the wrong. Zhang Juhua always held her head high wherever she went!
But when it comes to splitting up a family, this isn’t the case.
Zhang Juhua, an elder, wasn't even dead yet! And yet a little girl was clamoring for a family division. If this division really happened, the Xiang family would be completely disgraced!
Even if you count three generations ago, there has never been such a thing!
Thinking of this, Zhang Juhua's face fell in an instant. She put her hands on her hips and cursed, "I knew you were an ungrateful person. You grew up eating and drinking at home, and we paid for your education until you reached high school. Haha, you just found a man to rely on, and now you're shouting about splitting up the family! Do you have any shame?"
Xiang Yao's mouth corners pulled down, and he said, "Yes, I eat and drink at home, but in the past ten years, which grain of rice I have eaten, which cent of tuition I have paid for school, was not earned by my parents for the family?"
"Weren't it my parents who did the most work and earned the most work points in the family?" She looked directly at Zhang Juhua, the corners of her lips still curved. "If I'm shameless, then who is?"
Seeing Zhang Juhua's chest heaving with anger, she said, "Let's split up. It will be better for everyone."
She looked at Ye Fang under the eaves, and then at Xiang Xiuxiu, who was stiffly standing there without drinking the brown sugar water. "Don't you want a room? If we don't separate, you'll never be able to live in my room again."
"As for me, when the time comes, I'll move in with my Baichuan," Xiang Yao said with a smile, holding Nie Baichuan's arm as he slowly walked over. "My room is big anyway. When I lived alone before, I felt it was empty. Now with two of us, it's just right."
When Ye Fang heard this, her face turned pale.
The reason why she pushed for Xiang Yao to get married was not so that she could live in a separate room with Xiang Jun and their daughter?
Whether Xiang Yao married into the Zhou family or the Nie family, even if this matter made her family bear a lot of complaints from the Zhou family, she was happy in her heart because her goal had been initially achieved.
So what did Xiang Yao just say? She wanted to move in with her man?
She glanced at Xiang Yao and was stung by her action of holding Nie Baichuan's arm. She thought: How shameless.
Being so intimate in front of so many people.
But what's even more shameless is that she actually had such a plan.
But Ye Fang was not a person who showed her emotions very much. She was feeling unhappy in her heart, but she also knew that if she spoke at this time, she would become the first one to be criticized.
She thought so, but some people didn't care. After hearing what Xiang Yao said, Liu Xiaolan immediately stood up and rushed out, yelling, "How can this be possible? How can this be possible!"
"Yaoyao, I'm not saying this to you, Third Aunt, but a daughter who's married is like spilled water. You've already gotten married, so how can you still live in our house? Isn't that right?"
She was discussing with her husband last night that they would clean up the room where Xiang Yao lived in two days, put a curtain in the middle, and let their daughter sleep on the outside and their son sleep on the inside.
This way, the couple will be well off. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have another baby while they are still young?
Xiang Yao wanted to bring a man to live with her, and she was the first one to disagree!
Xiang Yao blinked and pretended to be embarrassed: "Aunt, since grandma doesn't agree to divide the family, then if I don't live in this room, wouldn't it be a loss?"
Liu Xiaolan laughed dryly: "Girl, you and your man are married, so of course you should live in the Nie family. Otherwise, you will be laughed at by others!"
Xiang Yao glanced at Nie Baichuan, who understood and said in a deep voice, "Aunt San, it rained heavily a few days ago, and the roof leaked and flooded our house. I'm worried about having no place to sleep."
Perhaps because he didn't usually talk nonsense, Nie Baichuan's words were rather stiff. Xiang Yao's lips curled up again and again, trying to straighten them. He frowned and added, "Yeah, I told you, I have a place to live at home. It's more than enough for the two of us."
Nie Baichuan set his jaw and nodded seriously, "That's right."
The two were busy trying to scare people and didn't notice that Xiang Xiuxiu, who had been looking at them intentionally or unintentionally since they came in, shifted her gaze and was no longer interested after hearing this.
Xiang Yao added, "But don't worry, since I've already started a new family, I'll just live at home and won't eat a single grain of rice."
Liu Xiaolan was a little stunned and didn't know what to say for a moment, but Zhang Juhua exploded.
She pointed at Xiang Yao and Nie Baichuan, her voice sharp and fierce: "You are so shameless! Getting married in private is fine, but you actually want to live at home? I think you are dreaming!"
She squinted her eyes at Nie Baichuan and said, "He didn't even bring any betrothal gifts. He came with nothing. I've never seen a son-in-law like him. Even so, he still wants to stay in our Xiang family. We have been poor peasants for three generations. We dare not live with landlords or rich peasants!"
Xiang Yao interrupted her: "So we have to separate the family. If we don't, we have to live at home. If we insist on living there, no one can stop us."
Zhang Juhua seemed to have something stuck in her throat and wanted to continue scolding, but she saw Xiang Yao with a smile on her face, as if saying: As long as the family does not split up, she has plenty of ways to make trouble.
To divide? Or not to divide?
This is a problem.
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